Laughing = Healing.
I’ve been lucky to have had a few “laugh out loud” moments this week. I like to think that all of my laughs and smiles make there way to heaven and are heard by my lovely daughter, Claire. Laughter helps make my heart feel a little bit fuller and that brief moment of chuckling is a temporary band-aid to my grief.
I think it’s important to make an effort to remember my moments of laughter and not just my moments of grief, so I’ve remembered and posted a few things that brought a smile to my face this week.
1. I found a link from apartment therapy to this website. The author has an entertaining writing style and somehow, in my meandering of her site, I found this hilarious post. She obviously has a good sense of humor and I had a nice, long laugh through the entire thing. My laugh began when she explains how her ear fell apart in her hand and then grew exponentially when she describes how her husband gagged in his mouth when he saw it.
2. I love Harry Potter. I read the first five books over the course of five, consecutive days and have dutifully seen all of the movies. I don’t think I qualify as a hard-core fan since I didn’t go to the midnight showing but I’m enough of a fan that I would highly consider planning a trip to Florida just go visit the Harry Potter Theme Park. In this link, the cast of Harry Potter is given the task of pronouncing “American” words with an American Accent. My personal favorite? Olive Garden! Sounds American to me!
3. This wouldn’t qualify as a “laugh” per se but it did make me smile for nearly three minutes while it was on TV. I love Glee and my husband has had to suffer on more than one occasion to the multiple Glee CDs I keep in my car. This is one of my favorites! I can’t sing (despite my best childhood efforts) but love too and most of Glee’s song selections and arrangements just demand to be sung along to. I can’t dance either but they always manage to get a little head bop out of me too 
